Quaternion-based color image filtering for impulsive noise suppression

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Jin, Lianghai ^a,b   Liu, Hong ^a,b   Xu, Xiangyang ^a,b   Song, Enmin ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE FILTERING; COLOR IMAGES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FILTERING SOLUTIONS; IMPULSIVE NOISE SUPPRESSION; MULTI-CHANNEL FILTERING; NOISY PIXELS; NON-STATIONARITIES; TWO-COLOR; WEIGHTED VECTOR;

COLOR; FILTRATION; PIXELS;

IMPULSE NOISE;

EID: 80052297777     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3491498     Document Type: Article

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